Devil in a Blue DressPresentation: Hanbin Ying (Victor)

Chapter 27

Daphne’s story at the zoo

Monkey

Birds

Zebra

Easy being knocked out

Question

“He [Daphne’s father] just loved me so much that day at the zoo and he knew me, the real me, and whenever you know somebody that well you just have to leave.” --Daphne

Do you think this is what Daphne really believes or it’s just part of her cover?

Chapter 28

Memory of War

Daphne’s disappearance

Inner voice

Chapter 29

Gun battle

Albright injured and fled

Joppy captured and shot

Dividing money

“Real Daphne”

Question

“I didn't really want her to stay. Daphne Monet was death herself. I was glad that she was leaving. But I would have taken her in a second if she'd asked me to.” -- Easy

Do you think Easy wants Daphne to stay or not and why?

Chapter 30

Albright is dead

Send the little boy to Primo

Wrap up the case in City Hall

Chapter 31

Three months later…

Talk with Odell

Easy got a job as private investigator

The last part "If you know a man is wrong, I mean, if you know he did somethin' bad but you don't turn him in to the law because he's your friend, do you think that's right?"

"All you got is your friends, Easy."

"But then what if you know somebody else who did something wrong but not so bad as the first man, but you turn this other guy in?”

"I guess you figure that that other guy got ahold of some bad luck."

What’s the meaning of this paragraph? Or specifically, what’s the meaning of Odell’s answers?

Major Theme

Violence and corruption

Freedom

Pedophilia

Violence and Corruption

High Crime Rate

Most efficient Police world-wide vs.. Brutality

Massive corruption in City Hall and the Los Angeles Police Department

Underworld profits finance political campaigns

“the district attorney's office, sheriff's office, and Los Angeles Police Department work in complete harmony and never interfere with … important figures in the underworld” --Clifford Clinton

Second Great Migration of African American

More than five million nationwide

To northeast, west and urban

California offered many skilled jobs in the defense industry (Easy worked in an aircraft assembling factory)

California's population grew by 49% during the Fifties

Automobile in 50s

Doubled from 39 million to 74 million

By late fifties:

80% of American families had at least one car

15% had two or more

Americans owned more cars than all the rest of the world put together.

“The poorest man has a car in Los Angeles; he might not have a roof over his head but he has a car.”

Desegregation and racial crisis

Jim Crow laws

In 50s, only US Army and US Navy is desegregated

Racial crisis in south L.A.(whites bombing, firing into, and burning crosses on the lawns of homes purchased by black families south of Slauson)

Escalation: white gangs, black mutual protection clubs

Basis for today’s street gangs

Pedophilia

Victim:

Distrust on people

Lack of self-esteem

Difficulty in developing relationship

In the novel: Daphne

Future Foreshadows

Freedom movement

Economic Prosperity(The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s)

Restless 60s on all social aspects

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